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Constitute Recognized by American Library Association
The American Library Association has selected Constitute as one of the ALA Best Free Reference Websites for 2015, in the RUSA Emerging Technologies Section. Voted for by committee member librarians from around the United States, Constitute is one of 17 websites recognized by RUSA ETS this year as an outstanding site for reference information. See…
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International IDEA to Hold Constitution Building Tech Fair
International IDEA, in partnership with the Google Docs and Google Ideas, is organizing a one-day “Constitution Building Tech Fair” for technology entrepreneurs to present services, platforms and products that could help in a constitution making process, and have an exchange with leading constitutional experts and practitioners regarding currently unmet needs and challenges for which existing…
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New Book by CCP Co-Director Analyzes Magna Carta
On the 800th anniversary of the Great Charter, CCP co-director James Melton and colleague Robert Hazell have published an edited volume that investigates the historic and contemporary influence of the document. Entitled Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy, the book features works by top scholars from the UK, US, and Australia. Learn more or buy…
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CCP Co-Director Releases New Report on the UK Constitution
James Melton, Senior Lecturer at University College London and CCP co-director, has released a new report, “To Codify or Not to Codify: Lessons from Consolidating the United Kingdom’s Constitutional Statutes,” which finds that codification of the UK’s constitution is not essential. Read more or view the full report.
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New Paper Uses Constitute to Analyze Environmental Rights
Joshua C. Gellers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, used Constitute to help build his dataset on the expansion of constitutional environmental rights for his most recent publication, “Explaining the emergence of constitutional environmental rights: a global quantitative analysis.” Dr. Gellers calls Constitute an…